From WSJopinion: If you really want to save the Amazon rainforest, forget environmental nostrums and worry about local prosperity, writes lnarloch
Fires in the Amazon prompted a world-wide outcry last week. But if you want to save the rainforest, please be realistic. Twenty-three million people live in Brazilian Amazonia, 45% of them below the poverty line.
The area includes five of the six poorest states of a poor country, according to the national statistical agency. Starving people don’t care about the forest. They consider it a green hell and see forest rangers as enemies.To Read the Full Story
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